Education for Self-transformation

Essay Form as an Educational Practice

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Education & Teaching, Educational Theory, Philosophy & Social Aspects, Teaching, Teaching Methods
Cover of the book Education for Self-transformation by Duck-Joo Kwak, Springer Netherlands
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Duck-Joo Kwak ISBN: 9789400724013
Publisher: Springer Netherlands Publication: October 12, 2011
Imprint: Springer Language: English
Author: Duck-Joo Kwak
ISBN: 9789400724013
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Publication: October 12, 2011
Imprint: Springer
Language: English

Exemplifying what it advocates, this book is an innovative attempt to retrieve the essay form from its degenerate condition in academic writing. Its purpose is to create pedagogical space in which the inner struggle of ‘lived experience’ can articulate itself in the first person. Working through essays, the modern, ‘post-secular’ self can guide, understand, and express its own transformation. This is not merely a book about writing methods: it has a sharp existential edge. 

Beginning by defining key terms such as ‘self-transformation’, Kwak sketches the contemporary debates between Jürgen Habermas and Charles Taylor on the status of religious language in the public domain, and its relationship to secular language. This allows her to contextualize her book’s central questions: how can philosophical practice reduce the experiential rift between knowledge and wisdom? How can the essay form be developed so that it facilitates, as praxis, pedagogical self-transformation? Kwak develops her answers by working through ideas of George Lukács and Stanley Cavell, of Hans Blumenberg and Søren Kierkegaard, whose work is much less familiar in this context than it deserves to be.

 Kwak’s work provides templates for new forms of educational writing, new approaches to teaching educators, and new ways of writing methodology for educational researchers. Yet the importance of her ideas extends far beyond teaching academies to classroom teachers, curriculum developers – and to anyone engaged in the quest to lead a reflective life of one’s own.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

Exemplifying what it advocates, this book is an innovative attempt to retrieve the essay form from its degenerate condition in academic writing. Its purpose is to create pedagogical space in which the inner struggle of ‘lived experience’ can articulate itself in the first person. Working through essays, the modern, ‘post-secular’ self can guide, understand, and express its own transformation. This is not merely a book about writing methods: it has a sharp existential edge. 

Beginning by defining key terms such as ‘self-transformation’, Kwak sketches the contemporary debates between Jürgen Habermas and Charles Taylor on the status of religious language in the public domain, and its relationship to secular language. This allows her to contextualize her book’s central questions: how can philosophical practice reduce the experiential rift between knowledge and wisdom? How can the essay form be developed so that it facilitates, as praxis, pedagogical self-transformation? Kwak develops her answers by working through ideas of George Lukács and Stanley Cavell, of Hans Blumenberg and Søren Kierkegaard, whose work is much less familiar in this context than it deserves to be.

 Kwak’s work provides templates for new forms of educational writing, new approaches to teaching educators, and new ways of writing methodology for educational researchers. Yet the importance of her ideas extends far beyond teaching academies to classroom teachers, curriculum developers – and to anyone engaged in the quest to lead a reflective life of one’s own.

More books from Springer Netherlands

Cover of the book Interpretation of Law in the Age of Enlightenment by Duck-Joo Kwak
Cover of the book Social and Medical Aspects of Drug Abuse by Duck-Joo Kwak
Cover of the book Proteins and Proteomics of Leishmania and Trypanosoma by Duck-Joo Kwak
Cover of the book In the Interests of Others by Duck-Joo Kwak
Cover of the book Advances in Interlaboratory Testing and Evaluation of Bituminous Materials by Duck-Joo Kwak
Cover of the book Mathematicians as Enquirers by Duck-Joo Kwak
Cover of the book Explaining Games by Duck-Joo Kwak
Cover of the book Governing the Uncertain by Duck-Joo Kwak
Cover of the book Science, Technology and the Military by Duck-Joo Kwak
Cover of the book Youth Identities, Localities, and Visual Material Culture by Duck-Joo Kwak
Cover of the book Enzymatic polymerization of phenolic compounds by oxidoreductases by Duck-Joo Kwak
Cover of the book Essentials of Risk Theory by Duck-Joo Kwak
Cover of the book Glaciated Continental Margins by Duck-Joo Kwak
Cover of the book Infinity in the Presocratics by Duck-Joo Kwak
Cover of the book Computing Meaning by Duck-Joo Kwak
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy